Thursday, June 19, 2008

Early Retirement

shall study, shall not blog... shall study, shall not blog... shall study, shall not blog....


ah, what the hell.



these days i've been playing guitar quite often. to relieve stress and to relieve boredom and just pass the time. and after all that, i found the answer to the question, "how long do guitar picks (or for those of you stuffy guys, 'plectrums') last under heavy use?"


well, the answer to that is, not that long.


case to point, my yellow tortex pick. haha. here it is alongside an almost unused green tortex pick.



which is kinda sad actually. coz it's the pick the lipjeen bought me, outta whim. she thought it was cute (it is). sweet girl right? anyway! as you can see, i've used it a lot. by chance that it's hard enough to give a good picking response but not to stiff to make my strumming sound like a retard's (anthony's). but alas, i'm retiring it. what was once 'the wedge' is now a round bottomed pick. i didn't know it was that bad till i tried another one.





so, enjoy your retirement, you faded, round-bottomed yellow turtle.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

FOUR!!


tsk tsk tsk... ming hui, ming hui. you managed to generate quite a stir there. haha. well. if anything, a blog (or a diary) serves as a camera of the mind, letting us have a peek at its inner workings. some things i've written i've regretted (such is the nature of time and the human) and some i feel is still the truth. some were of thoughts now changed, some of them disappeared, some of them remain the same.


ANYWAY!!!


ANYWAY!!!



today me an lipjeen had a small and quiet celebration of our FOURTH anniversary! whoohoo!!!



what a milestone!!!! =)



just like a birthday, it still feels the same, BUT... BUT!!! it's important to take time and acknowledge the person who made it all possible (no, not me you idiot) LIPJEEN!!!



she's just the greatest! i'm proud to say that i love her very much. and she means the world to me.


she's a very very good friend, a faithful listener (when i'm not boring her. haha), my makan kaki, a fellow insomniac (no more, sadly), the one who racks up my phonebills (just kidding!), the cutest girl i've ever set my eyes on, the sweetest person i know (wouldn't hurt the person who hurt-ed the fly), terrified of cats and dogs so thankfully i'm not a pet person, is not too girly, but not too manly either. haha. and totally adorable. haha... i've never cheated, and neither has she (or so i hope)







she has tolerated my music, me being always late, lame, silly. me being a jerk. or an emotionless block of cinder. she's tolerated me pushing books and music at her, only to have her push the mandarin language and chinese serials back at me. haha...



couldn't have asked for a better person to share these past four years with.



i've cycled to your place, sang to you (while you were busy plugging your ears), got bitten by mosquitoes at fort canning with you, taken countless busses, watched many forgetable movies, lunched, dined, sandwiched, ran, laughed, grumbled, gossiped, shopped, wasted time, studied, helped, telephoned, SMSed, emailed, wrote for... and this list will only grow. ohno.
let's just have fun. burn the bridges when you get to them.
cheerio!

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Oh, This and That

today is yunn cheng's birthday.


i'm sure they'll be having a good fun celebration somewhere. but it's okay. they don't invite me.


actually, noone invites me for anything anymore, except kelvin, anthony and co. la...


not the Cina gang, not the english speaking gang, not the CF gang, not the Indian gang.... or whatever gang la.


not for movies, not for gym, not for lunch, not for anything la. i bet "eh! we forgot to ask minghui if he wants to come lah!" is the last thing on everybody's mind.


well, except for the jamming gang la. and even within the jamming gang, seng is half Cina, so he won't let me in on anything that's going on anyway.


but actually, that's fine by me. haha. i've made my peace with it already. i don't give a flying fuck anymore. besides, you all chiang hwa yi here and chiang hwa yi there, bugs the HELL OUTTA ME. i think i wouldn't get invited to my own birthday dinner either.


haha. luckilly there's still volleyball and basketball.


perhaps i've turned them down too many times. haha... i'm lazy, that's why.


all you assholes only think of me when you need transport. to sri petaling larh, to mid valley larh, to wherever lah.


so from now on, tell you what. since the price of fuel has increased, don't invite me for anything. the answer is an automatic NO.


especially if people tell me, "erh, sorry ah ming, can you please confirm if you are coming? like ASAP? coz we need to settle the transport issues...." or "we may not have enough cars la..." and there's always the "how many people can you fit in your car?"


you all suddenly so friendly! wah! ah, the warm rays of friendship! hahaha...


go fly kite la you all.


it's nice being alone sometimes. you don't have to fake a smile. YOU CAN FART IF YOU WANT TO. you don't have to come up with mundane conversation starters ("wah! nowadays arh! rain everyday sia!"), you don't have to spend too much money. YOU CAN WANK. you can play guitar till the dogs behind your house go into barking fits. you won't have people call you chubby. you can watch ALL the geeky documentaries in national geographic you want. you can avoid watching this dumb sport where 22 guys on a green field go kicking a ball (and each other). you may even study! you can lie on your bed and read til daybreak. you can play project gotham racing 4 and grand theft auto 4 and screw your GTA4 girlfriend till she bleeds.


it's okay. i'm not even angry. haha. really man. i'll still smile at you. i'll still say hi. but for whatever it's worth, don't count me in larh. i'm just to lazy. it's nice if you think of me once in a while, but hey (shrugs shoulders) i'm not begging. if anyone reads this and feels sorry for me, don't. don't let your egoes convince you that my happiness and my sense of fulfillment hinges upon so little. i'm just stating a fact. throw that flash of momentary guilt out of the window.


i was reading melvyn's blog. i know exactly how he feels, just that perhaps my humour gets to more people than his one does. maybe. but it's really alright to be alone. sure, friends are great. they help you along, you help them along, you laugh and tell jokes, but really, you don't need to be accepted by people or be close to them. look where it got me. i'm sitting here at home doing some personal reflection (albeit doing it online) thinking of what dinner i should get myself (hmm... instant me? char kuay teow? or roti telur bawang?)


anyway, to all those celebrating a birthday, or celebrating somebody else's birthday have a good one! i mean, sincerely, you have my well wishes however old you are, and whoever your friends may be. why not? i don't hate you. i just care less... i've got me myself and i, and life is just peachy!




Monday, June 02, 2008

Happy Birthday Mum!!!



'twas my mum's birthday on sunday. she has ripened to a good old age of 51! haha... cool sia... but don't say i told you that larh.


i actually tried to con my cousin into messaging my mum to wish her 'happy sixtieth birthday' but it failed la. cousin didn't buy the message i sent her: "yeah, today's my mum's birthday. she turns sixty"


it was a great weekend. just chilling with my mum. we went to KLCC.


mum bought me clothes (she can't stand that i wear the same clothes all the time) and then books, and then dinner.


funny eh!? her birthday but she belanja me. haha...


anyway! oh, books and books! i got three!! the one i'm currently reading:

1. Eric Clapton: the biography






2. Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie

3. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett.

did you know that as a kid, when clapton discovered his talent for drawing/art, his first subjects were pies?

he was obssessed with them. he would draw hundreds of pies, pies this, and pies that, and pies with the pie man, and pies on the pie cart and so forth....

funny sia.

cheerio guys! study hard.